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Amorphis' fifteenth studio album, Borderland, was released on Friday, September 26th. To celebrate this milestone release in the band's 35th year of existence, founding member and guitarist Esa Holopainen and keyboardist Santeri Kallio made an appearance across the pond at Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn, a metal institution since 2003, on Friday evening. Labeled as a record release party, the two key songwriters from Amorphis mingled with fans from New York City and its surrounding areas, talked...
Mark Menghi certainly didn’t take the traditional route to prominence in the rock and metal world. In fact, if you look back at his story, it might sound pretty familiar. For starters, he worked at a record store he frequented often, the legendary Looney Tunes in West Babylon on Long Island. Inspired by the likes of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Cliff Burton-era Metallica, he began playing in local bands during his youth that scrapped their way through every tiny venue wit...
Throughout his spectacular career, Gene Hoglan has been involved with some of the biggest names to ever play heavy metal. From his earnest beginnings as a lighting tech with Slayer, that led him to be featured doing backing vocals on “Evil Knows No Boundaries” from Show No Mercy, to being bestowed the nickname “The Atomic Clock” during his time in Strapping Young Lad alongside Devin Townsend, and then being tabbed to play in Testament alongside Alex Skolnick and long-time partner in cr...
When Dan Briggs joined Between the Buried and Me in early 2005, the band was at a bit of a crossroads. After releasing The Silent Circus in 2003, an album that showed flashes of their future progressive sound, the group went through a number of personnel changes that eventually brought Briggs into the fold, alongside drummer Blake Richardson and guitarist Dustie Waring. Alongside founding members Tommy Rogers (lead vocals) and Paul Waggoner (lead guitar), this lineup would write a...
When founding members Tomi Koivusaari, Esa Holopainen, and Jan Rechberger named Amorphis in 1990, they must have had a view to the future of the band. A play on the word amorphous, which means having no definite form and unclassifiable, no word can better explain the last thirty-five years of the band’s history in regards to their music and lineup. The legendary Finnish band has become synonymous with their namesake, as they’ve delved in and out of doom, death, folk, progressive,...
When Children of Bodom played their final show on December 15, 2019, it quite possibly could have been the last time their brilliant keyboardist Janne Wirman ever played a single note of music he wrote. The last show came as a culmination of a tumultuous year that saw the band split ways with lead guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho after a series of disagreements, exacerbated by his increasingly erratic behavior due to alcohol abuse, which made it impossible for the legendary Finnish ba...
So the story goes, Tom Angelripper and his original bandmates started playing music as a means to escape a life of working in the coal mines in Germany. Now nearly 40 years later, after influencing innumerable thrash, death, and black metal bands over their historic career, Sodom is preparing to release their 17th studio album The Arsonist through Steamhammer/SPV on June 27th. Ahead of its release, I had a chance to speak Tom, the only original member remaining, about a number of ...
Though he may not have known it at the time, Alexander Kuoppala’s eight-year tenure in Children of Bodom would prepare him for his future endeavors in music education. When he joined the group in 1995 when they were still called IneartheD, he was five years older than most of the members of the band. As the group progressed and advanced their career with each of their first four widely revered records, he became an older brother figure to his bandmates, especially their superstar...
When interviewed about Mario Lalli for a documentary about the emerging desert rock scene he grew up in, Josh Homme of Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age fame described him this way: “Mario is the one guy who I always thought deserved the most credit for everything. He was always a few years ahead of his time… He’s always had this way about him – he’s very giving, he’s always done everything for the right reasons, for the art of it, for the love of it, and expecting nothing.” ...
Porcupine Tree band leader Steven Wilson started his 2022 autobiography, Limited Edition of One, with a story about the band’s last show before the start of their well-known hiatus that began in 2010. He wrote that subconsciously, while playing before a sold out crowd at the famous Royal Albert Hall, he knew that it would be the last thing Porcupine Tree did for a while. There was one problem: he neglected to tell all of his bandmates of these plans for quite some time. One of th...
Since their inception in 1997, Elvenking have never fit squarelyinto one genre or category in the world of metal. On a surface level, the casual listener might blindly generalize them into power metal genre based on Davide “Damna” Moras’ soaring vocals and Federico “Aydan” Baston’s fast-paced riffing and lead guitar play. But when you span the band’s entire catalog, the breadth of their influences are revealed, resulting in a brand of metal that is as much influenced by folk metal...
When Swedish melodic death metal legends Arch Enemy were about to enter to studio to record Burning Bridges in 1999, which would become one of their most iconic releases, they were facing a bit of an issue: they needed a bassist. The group had just returned from playing tour dates in Japan and, according to lead guitarist and band leader Michael Amott, things were not working out with their current lineup. That’s when Amott decided to give Sharlee D’Angelo, who he’d known sin...
In early 1991, Dream Theater were dangerously close to calling it quits. The promising young group, which formed at Berklee College of Music in Boston in the mid-1980s under the original name Majesty, had let go original lead singer Charlie Dominici shortly after their 1989 debut record When Dream and Day Unite. For nearly a year and a half, they had auditioned countless frontmen, with none of them fitting the job description in the right way. Doubt started to creep in, as ...
Failure has never really been an option for Jamey Jasta. He started out in the music business in his early teens during the mid-1990s and he has yet to look back. When interviewed about his initial impressions of meeting Jamey as a teenager, Brian Fair of Shadows Fall had this to say: "Jamey was the hardest working man in hardcore. He saw a possibility of making a career out of this long before anyone else I knew did. But he knew that meant multitasking and having a m...
Justin Foley joined Killswitch Engage in the fall of 2003 after the departure of their original drummer. His former bandmate, Howard Jones, had just joined the band as their lead singer and recommended Foley for the vacancy. A year later, Killswitch Engage would be nominated for a Grammy for their gold 2004 record The End of Heartache and be opening for Slayer as part of the Jagermeister Music Tour – a meteoric rise for a band that just five years prior was playing travelling hou...
Reflecting on when Fredrik Åkesson joined Opeth in 2007 after the departure of founding member Peter Lindgren, band frontman and general mastermind Mikael Åkerfeldt said: “Finally, we had a really, really good lead guitar player, so I could step back a little bit…I always wanted a good lead guitarist, but neither me or Peter were able to advance too much in that department.” Now some seventeen years and six albums later, Åkesson and Åkerfeldt have developed an incredible chemistry that is sho...
Frank Hetzel has been a giant in the Seattle metal community for many years – so much so that it’s been said that any metal band who played in the city was booked through him. After securing national and international band to grace the stages of Seattle, he started to create his own music through Beltfed Weapon, using the connections he had made to secure guest and session musicians to appear on the band’s EPs. The band’s latest single, “Tortured Within,” features Stu Block on lea...
Alex Skolnick is a world renowned guitar virtuoso most well-known for playing in the thrash metal band Testament from the age of 16. He has also played in Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and his jazz outfit Alex Skolnick Trio. I spoke to him ahead of his appearance with metal supergroup Metal Allegiance 10th Anniversary Show on September 6th at Starland Ballroom. Alex spoke about a number of topics, including: how Metal Allegiance formed, the several dozen special guests on their al...
Karl Agell, who was Corrosion of Conformity's vocalist on 1991's breakthrough Blind, discussed a number of topics with me, including: how he joined Legions of Doom, a doom/stoner supergroup involving ex-members of Trouble, The Skull, Saint Vitus, Pentagram, Leadfoot, and more.their first release, The Skull 3, due out September 13th through Tee Pee Records.the impact Eric Wagner (Trouble, The Skull) and his passing in 2021 had on this record and on Karl's career.his time in Corrosion of Confor...
I've been a King's X fan for over two decades now. The fact that I was able to interview bassist and vocalist Doug (dUg) Pinnick for ThisDayInMetal.com was a surreal experience. dUg spoke with us for nearly 50 minutes about: his upcoming new solo record in October 2024.the bizarre experience of opening for AC/DC in Germany.how King's X picks their setlist.playing Woodstock '94.working with Brendan O'Brien on Dogman.his cameo on "Lines in the Sand" by Dream Theater. how he feels a...
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